59 Top Computer Scientists and Election Security Experts Slam Trump's Assertions as False and Incoherent
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In the wake of continued lies by Donald Trump regarding election security and voter fraud, fifty-nine of the country’s leading computer scientists and election security experts signed a letter that rebuked Trump, saying that his false assertions are “unsubstantiated or are technically incoherent” without ever citing him by name. “To our collective knowledge, no credible evidence has been put forth that supports a conclusion that the 2020 election outcome in any state has been altered through technical compromise,” they wrote. The group includes a who’s who in information security, including Matt Blaze, a computer science professor at Georgetown University, Ronald Rivest, a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a pioneer in cryptography, Steven M. Bellovin, a computer science professor at Columbia University, Joseph Lorenzo Hall, the senior vice president at the nonprofit Internet Society, J. Alex Halderman, an election security expert, and Harri Hursti, an electio…
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